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For the Sake of the Children (Paperback, New)
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For the Sake of the Children (Paperback, New)
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This study examines the organization of social responsibility in
the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing
on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff,
the book investigates two neonatal intensive care units, showing
the traumas of extreme medical measures, and the sufferings of
infants. The accounts are by turns disturbing and heroic, as
parents and staff attempt to take charge of the infants' care,
redefining their roles as adults and parents, and coping with
sometimes awful contingencies. Rather than treating responsibility
as an ethical issue, the book focuses on how responsibility is
socially produced and sustained. It questions how staff members
encourage parents to take responsibility, but keep them from
interfering in medical matters, and how parents encourage staff
vigilance when they are novices attempting to supervise the
experts. The authors conclude that it is not sufficient simply to
be responsible individuals. Instead, people must learn to be
responsible in an organizational world, and organizations must
learn how to support responsible individuals.
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